It turns out you cannot eat pure political rhetoric when the trade war bill comes due.

[u/Cderouen8284]

Nothing screams rugged, independent free-market capitalism quite like begging the government for a multibillion-dollar bailout because your own preferred trade policies vaporized your customer base.

You voted to burn down the global grain market and are now stunned to discover you actually have to live inside the ashes. 
Broad tariff regimes inevitably trigger direct retaliatory duties on domestic agricultural exports, converting thriving family operations into federally dependent welfare cases overnight. Handing out billions in taxpayer-funded stopgap relief does not recover structural export market share; it simply forces the public to subsidize avoidable self-inflicted losses while multi-generational farms fold under the debt. 

[u/Jmaverik1974]

Something that would shock the founding fathers (everything trump does would shock them), is Trump's ability to give people billions of dollars without Congressional approval.

If the president has the power of the purse then checks and balances mean nothing.

They would also be shocked by how the supreme court has decided that they can literally make laws, bypassing the other two branches.

I keep wondering if trump is going to pull a last minute buy their vote. Not that he would need to do something dramatic at this point to retain their vote.

It's sad and pathetic

[u/Responsible-Ad9384 → u/Jmaverik1974]

He already promised to pay everyone $5K if Republicans win the election. Thomas Massie made fun of him saying we control Congress, Executive and Judicial - why not make those socialist payments now?

It seems to be a common thing he does whenever elections come up. Also promised a $90 check to Medicare recipients 🙄